Putin Relative Accidentally Discloses Russian Military Casualty Data

Anna Tsivilyova, a deputy defense minister and Putin's cousin, revealed sensitive figures about DNA requests linked to soldiers killed or missing in Ukraine.

• Anna Tsivilyova, a senior Russian official and relative of Vladimir Putin, disclosed that 48,000 DNA requests had been submitted by families seeking to identify soldiers killed or missing in Ukraine.
• The disclosure occurred during a parliamentary hearing in November and was later flagged by the opposition Telegram channel Astra after the video was removed from official websites.
• Russian officials quickly emphasized that the data was classified, with a parliamentary defense committee chief urging that such figures not be publicly shared.
• Western intelligence estimates suggest that Russia has suffered up to 700,000 casualties, including 200,000 deaths, since the start of the war in February 2022.
• The Kremlin has tightly guarded information on military losses, with no official figures released since the first year of the war, as public awareness of casualties could undermine domestic support.

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